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  • Notes on Contributors

Akin Adesokan

Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of Roots in the Sky, a novel. His new book, Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics, will be published in fall 2011. His writings have recently appeared in Screen, Textual Practice, Chimurenga, and Research in African Literatures.

Olivier Barlet

Olivier Barlet is a member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinema, a delegate for Africa at the Cannes Festival Critics Week, and a film correspondent for Africultures, Continental, and Afriscope. He is in charge of the Images plurielles collection on cinema for L’Harmattan Publishing House. His book entitled Les Cinémas d’Afrique noire: le regard en question, which won the Prix Art et Essai 1997 from the Centre national de la Cinématographie, has been translated into English under the title African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze (London: Zed Books), as well as into German and Italian. From 1997 to 2004, Barlet was chief editor of Africultures, an African cultural journal that features a paper edition and a website (www.africultures.com). He has also written numerous articles on African film for Africultures and in various journals and is a member of the African Federation of film critics (www.africine.org) through the French Afrimages association.

Karen Bowdre

Karen Bowdre is an assistant professor of media studies at Indiana University. Her research interests include race and representation, gender, adaptation, romantic comedies, and telenovelas.

Emma Hamilton

Emma Hamilton is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her doctoral research engages with the historicizing of the Western genre of film in the 1950s and 1960s and examines the intersections of gender, history, and film. Her broader research interest relates to the theoretical connections between history, film, and representation. [End Page 187]

Mark Hood

Mark Hood is an assistant professor of recording arts in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and a member of the IU Media Preservation Task Force in the Office of the Vice-Provost for Research. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Chief Engineer of the Sound Directions project at the Archives of Traditional Music. Hood received his BGS and Certificate in Business Foundations from Indiana University. He is Managing Partner of Echo Park Recording Studios in Bloomington and has engineered and produced hundreds of audio projects for release on vinyl, CD, DVD, feature films, and broadcast television. He is the Sound Designer for the Emmy and Tony award-winning theatrical production Blast!

Susan Hooyenga

Susan Hooyenga is the project assistant on the Sound Directions project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, at the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. She has an MS in Information with a Specialization in Archives and Records Management from the University of Michigan. As a graduate assistant in linguistics at Eastern Michigan University, she worked on the E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data) project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Michael T. Martin

Michael T. Martin is director of the Black Film Center/Archive and professor of communication and culture and American studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His work on the Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solas appeared in Film Quarterly and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video; the Burkinabe filmmaker, Gaston Kaboré, in Research in African Literatures; and the Mexican filmmaker, Francisco Athié, in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Framework. More recently his interviews with filmmakers Julie Dash, Joseph Gai Ramaka, and Yoruba Richen were published in Cinema Journal, Research in African Literatures, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, respectively, and his essay on Gillo Pontecorvo and Haile Gerima on the historical film and plantation societies appeared in Third Text. He also directed and coproduced the awardwinning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace distributed by Third World Newsreel.

Lesley Marx

Lesley Marx taught in the English Department at the University of Cape Town for many years focusing on American studies. Her monograph on American author John Hawkes was published in 1997. She chaired the department [End Page 188] from 1997 to 2000, was Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities from...

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